- This is the 2023 13th Annual St. Louis Teen Talent Competition at the Fabulous Fox Theatre.
Girls, are you ready for the show?
- [All] Yes.
- Are you ready?
Let's do this.
(lively music) (lively music continues) (lively music continues) (lively music continues) - [Announcer] Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome your host for the evening.
Ben Nordstrom!
- Hey!
Welcome to the 13th Annual St. Louis Teen Talent Competition.
We have got an incredible show in store for all of you tonight.
Right now, I'd like to introduce all of you to our distinguished panel of judges.
(audience cheering) First up, co-artistic director of dance at the Center of Creative Arts, Antonio Douthit-Boyd.
(audience cheering) Tony nominee and Broadway and television performer, Taylor Louderman.
(audience cheering) Director of operations at the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Audrey Kwong.
(audience cheering) Executive and artistic director at the St. Louis Ballet, Gen Horiuchi.
(audience cheering) Owner and operator of the St. Louis Recording Club and the vice president of the Memphis chapter of the Grammy Awards, Mr. Carl Nappa.
(audience cheering) And, my friends, last but not least, St. Louis native, Muny favorite, and star of stage and screen, Mr. Ken Page!
(audience cheering) (lively music) (lively music continues) Why don't we meet tonight's finalists?
Here we go!
First up, Yrwin Batan from Saint Louis Priory High School.
Cortland English from O'Fallon Township High School.
Anna Layher from Nerinx Hall High School.
Kyla Gerhardt from Granite City High School.
Avery Payne from Orchard Farm High School.
Ray Strickland from Central Visual and Performing Arts High School.
Ava Hettenhausen from O'Fallon Township High School.
Cats Jazz Collective featuring Zach Andrews, Beckett Mitchell, Katherine Teeter, Audrey Brenner, Miles Cole, Evan Christman, all from Webster Groves High School.
Noah Van Ess from Lindbergh High School.
Cindy Yan from Ladue Horton Watkins High School.
Saisha Bhutani from Clayton High School.
Kyleigh McCourt from Mehlville High School.
Ariana Kroeger from Clayton High School.
And The Drum Warriors Ensemble featuring Ismail Botchway, Corrin Ward, Solomon Ahmed, and Addison Jones from Collegiate School of Medicine and Bio Science, Clayton High School, Grand Center Arts Academy, and Carnahan High School.
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Hey, everybody, welcome to the 13th Annual St. Louis Teen Talent Competition!
(audience cheering) We have got an incredible show in store for all of you tonight.
Tonight is the culmination of a long journey that started back in February with 112 acts at our preliminary round.
Now, our semifinals brought that number down to 50.
And tonight, you are going to experience the 14 finalists who have made it all the way to the Fabulous Fox stage.
Let's get things started with our first finalist of the evening.
He is a 16 year old instrumentalist and composer playing a song that he wrote for his oldest brother, who currently serves in the U.S. Army.
The piece is entitled, "For God's Sake," please welcome Yrwin Batan.
(audience cheering) (gentle piano music) (gentle piano music continues) (gentle piano music continues) - My brother came from the from the military to visit us over Christmas break.
And the morning he left, I sat down at the piano bench and I just let the feelings pour out.
And then I realized, "Oh, that sounded good.
Let me write that down."
(lively piano music) Well, I don't have too much experience in composing, but I'd say roughly two.
It took me two months to compose.
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Now, the Broadway musical "Anastasia" played in New York only a few years ago, and it is based on the animated film of the same name.
Here to sing the character of Dimitri's spirited song about his hometown, please welcome to the stage 17 year old Cortland English singing "My Petersburg."
(gentle piano music) ♪ I grew up on the sly ♪ In the gutters and the streets of Petersburg ♪ ♪ Just a kid on the fly ♪ Getting good at getting by in Petersburg ♪ ♪ I've bartered for a blanket ♪ Stolen for my bread ♪ I've learned to take my chances ♪ ♪ And use my head ♪ A Russian Rat is clever ♪ Clever, or he ends up dead ♪ Boils down to ♪ There are some who survive ♪ Some who don't ♪ Some give up, some give in ♪ Me, I won't ♪ Black and blue, welcome to ♪ My Petersburg - I love the adrenaline you get after you can do something that you don't fully think you can push yourself to a limit.
♪ You can see ♪ From the spires to the piers of Petersburg ♪ ♪ I'd be down on that quay ♪ Selling stolen souvenirs of Petersburg ♪ So whenever I get ready to go on stage, I kinda put myself into the character.
I think what happened before and what's gonna happen, and I kinda run through it in my head and then once I can get into the character, it's kinda like I leave myself and Cortland goes somewhere else.
And I work on the character that I'm playing.
♪ In some rough company ♪ There's the boy growing up ♪ Who was me ♪ All I've been, all I'll be ♪ We can do what we're told ♪ We can go where we're lead ♪ But I learned from my father to see what's ahead ♪ ♪ Nothing here to hold me ♪ No one that I owe ♪ Funny how a boy can grow ♪ Funny how a city tells you when it's time to go ♪ ♪ Boils down to ♪ There are some who have walls yet to climb ♪ ♪ You and I on the fly, just in time ♪ ♪ But tonight there's a sky ♪ And quite a view ♪ Welcome to ♪ My Petersburg (audience cheering) - Oh, thank you, Cortland.
All right, now, audience, for you, we have a twist.
Our next finalist is a circus artist, a hand balancer, to be exact.
Now, the extraordinary challenge of being a hand balancer is to remain completely still.
Please welcome to the stage, our next finalist from Nerinx Hall High School.
This is 18 year old Anna Layher.
(gentle music) (gentle music continues) - I've been doing the circus since I was six, so I know some hand balancers and it looked like a fun thing to do.
And so I was like, "I want to do that," so now I'm doing it.
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Since 2011, nearly 2,000 students have auditioned for the Fox Performing Arts Teen Talent Competition.
And in that time, 306 of them have made it all the way to the finals to perform right here on the Fabulous Fox stage.
And our next finalist to perform upon this legendary stage is 18 year old Kyla Gerhardt.
She'll be singing the song "Home" from the hit Broadway musical "The Wiz."
(gentle piano music) (gentle piano music continues) ♪ When I think of home ♪ I think of a place ♪ Where there's love overflowing ♪ ♪ I wish I was home ♪ I wish I was back there ♪ With the things I've been knowing ♪ ♪ Wind that makes the tall trees bend into leaning ♪ ♪ Suddenly, the snowflakes that fall have a meaning ♪ ♪ Sprinklin' the scene ♪ Makes it all clean - I really, really love Diana Ross, and I'm a big fan of the movie "The Wiz" with Michael Jackson and all those fun people in there.
I want to sing a song that's going to make me feel how I feel now.
♪ To be back home ♪ Where there's love and affection ♪ I still only thank God because, like, he's making all this.
We already won 'cause just to get this far has been a challenge.
And, you know, we've had a lot of great times.
So if I win or if anybody else wins, I'm grateful either way 'cause we've made it really, really far.
♪ Let me start again ♪ Suddenly, my world's gone and changed its face ♪ ♪ But I still know where I'm going ♪ ♪ I have had my mind spun around in space ♪ ♪ And yet I've watched it growing ♪ ♪ Oh, and if you're list'ning, God ♪ ♪ Please don't make it hard to know ♪ ♪ If we should believe in things that we see ♪ ♪ Tell us, should we run away ♪ Should we try and stay ♪ Or would it be better just to let things be ♪ ♪ Living here, in this brand new world ♪ ♪ Might be a fantasy ♪ But it taught me to love ♪ So I know that it's real, real, real to me ♪ ♪ And I've learned ♪ That we must look inside our hearts to find ♪ ♪ A world full of love ♪ Like yours, like mine ♪ Like home (audience cheering) - Thank you, Kyla.
All right, we will keep things moving right along to our next finalist of the evening.
She is a dancer.
She'll be performing to "The Mad Lover Suite: Ground.
Aire V," please welcome to the stage 16 year old Avery Payne.
(audience cheering) (gentle music) (audience cheering) (gentle music continues) (gentle music continues) - The music has no lyrics, so it's all, like, instrumental and it's slow.
It's kinda fast as some parts, but it's not like jazz or like hip hop or anything like that.
I just loved it ever since.
I just kept on doing it.
And I'm 16.
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Now, our sixth finalist of the evening is an instrumentalist, a composer, and a singer.
This is 18 year old Ray Strickland.
He'll be performing his very relevant song, "Time for Change."
(dramatic piano music) ♪ Time is coming to an end ♪ So listen, my friend ♪ It's time to love one another ♪ ♪ We got to get all our sisters and brothers ♪ ♪ It's time to take a stand ♪ For what we believe ♪ And join hand in hand ♪ And reach destiny ♪ Just the other day ♪ I heard a mother cry ♪ As she got the news ♪ That her baby died, oh ♪ She tries to keep her head up ♪ ♪ As she buries her child ♪ But that day, but that day ♪ A part of her died ♪ Now what do you say to that mother ♪ ♪ As she crumbles inside ♪ Knowing life goes on ♪ But she carries this burden alone ♪ ♪ We've been through the storm ♪ We've been through the rain ♪ Just a little sunshine ♪ Mixed with heartaches and pain ♪ ♪ Oh, Lord ♪ Keep us another day, another day ♪ ♪ Please don't, please don't ♪ Please don't take your love away ♪ ♪ We need more of your grace ♪ This is the time for change - I perform "Time for Change" because when I originally wrote this song, it was after I lost my cousin due to gun violence.
On October 24th, 2022, Central Visual and Performing Arts High School became a victim to a tragic school shooting.
And since then, this song has become more relevant because it speaks of the young mother losing her child.
And it speaks that we have to come together as a people and demand to stand for a change.
♪ Don't let us fall ♪ Oh, Lord ♪ Keep us another day, another day ♪ ♪ Please don't, please don't ♪ Please don't take your love away ♪ ♪ We need more of your grace ♪ This is the time ♪ For ♪ Change (audience cheering) (audience continues cheering) - Thank you, Ray.
Hey, audience.
Hey, audience.
Can you believe all of the talent on this stage tonight?
(audience cheering) And let me tell you, let me tell you, they are all in high school and they are all from right here in your community.
Doesn't that make you so proud of St. Louis right now?
(audience cheering) Now, the Broadway musical, the Broadway musical, "Funny Girl" has received quite a lot of attention recently.
The show is about the real life Broadway star and comedienne Fanny Brice.
Here to sing Fanny's song, "The Greatest Star," this is 16 year old Ava Hettenhausen.
(audience cheering) (Ava sighs) ♪ Hey, listen, I've got 36 expressions ♪ ♪ Sweet as pie and tough as leather ♪ ♪ And that's six expressions ♪ More than all of them Barrymores put together ♪ ♪ Instead of just kicking me ♪ Why don't they give me a lift ♪ ♪ Well, it must be a plot 'cause they're scared that I got ♪ ♪ Such a gift ♪ Well, I'm miffed ♪ 'Cause I'm the greatest star ♪ I am by far ♪ But no one knows it ♪ Wait, they're gonna hear a voice ♪ ♪ A silver flute, ah ah, ah ah ♪ They'll cheer each toot ♪ Hey, that kid is terrific, huh ♪ ♪ When I expose it ♪ Now, can't you see to look at me ♪ ♪ That I'm a natural Camille ♪ As Camille, I just feel ♪ I've so much to offer ♪ Hey, listen, kid, I know I'd be divine because ♪ ♪ I'm a natural cougher (Ava coughs) ♪ Ahem, excuse me ♪ Some ain't got it, not a lump ♪ ♪ I'm a great big clump of talent ♪ ♪ Laugh ♪ They'll bend in half ♪ Did you ever hear the story about the traveling salesman ♪ ♪ A thousand jokes ♪ Stick around for the jokes ♪ A thousand faces ♪ I reiterate ♪ When you're gifted ♪ Then you're gifted ♪ These are facts ♪ I've got no ax to grind ♪ Hey, what are they, blind ♪ In all of the world so far ♪ I'm the greatest star ♪ Who is the pip with pizazz ♪ Who is all ginger and jazz ♪ Who is as glamorous as ♪ Who's an American Beauty rose ♪ ♪ With an American Beauty nose ♪ And 10 American Beauty toes ♪ Eyes on the target and wham ♪ One shot, one gun shot and bam ♪ ♪ Hey, Mr. Ziegfeld, here I am - I started performing in sixth grade.
I was Wendy in "Peter Pan."
An so I've always loved musical theater and all of that, and so I always loved performing.
And this winter, I got to go to New York and I saw "Funny Girl" on Broadway, and I loved it, adored it, and I tried it out, and it got me here, so... ♪ I can make 'em sigh ♪ Someday, they'll clamor ♪ For my drama ♪ Have you guessed yet ♪ Who's the best yet ♪ If you ain't, I'll tell you one more time ♪ ♪ You bet your last dime ♪ In all of the world so far ♪ I'm the greatest, greatest star ♪ (audience cheering) - Thank you, Ava.
All right.
And now, we are gonna welcome to the stage 17 year old Zach Andrews, 16 year old Audrey Brenner, 18 year old Evan Christman, 16 year old Miles Cole, 17 year old Beckett Mitchell, and 17 year old Katherine Teeter, performing a song originally from the Broadway musical "The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd."
Here to perform "Feeling Good," this is Cats Jazz Collective.
(audience cheering) ♪ Birds flying high, you know how I feel ♪ ♪ Sun in the sky, you know how I feel ♪ ♪ Breeze driftin' on by, you know how I feel ♪ ♪ It's a new dawn, it's a new day ♪ ♪ It's a new life for me (audience cheering) ♪ And I'm feeling good (lively music) (lively music continues) ♪ Fish in the sea, you know how I feel ♪ ♪ River running free, you know how I feel ♪ ♪ Blossom on the tree, you know how I feel ♪ ♪ It's a new dawn, it's a new day ♪ ♪ It's a new life for me ♪ And I'm feeling good - We all go to the same high school and we were in our school's jazz band and our friend Jude Bronner put us all together and we started performing gigs together and we heard about Teen Talent and we thought it would be a great idea to do it together.
(lively music) (lively music continues) (audience cheering) ♪ Dragonfly out in the sun ♪ You know what I mean, don't you know ♪ ♪ Butterflies are having fun, you know what I mean, oh ♪ ♪ Sleep in peace when the day is done, that's what I mean ♪ ♪ This old world is a new world is a bold world for me ♪ (lively music continues) (gentle music) ♪ And I'm feeling good ♪ I'm feeling good ♪ I'm feeling good ♪ I'm feeling good (lively music continues) (lively music continues) (lively music continues) (audience cheering) - All right, are you guys ready for some more phenomenal entertainment?
Now, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" is played all over the world, but before it was a stage show, it was a Disney animated classic movie, and before that, it was adapted into 15 different film versions.
And before that, it was a French Gothic novel.
Little history for all of us.
Well, here to perform "Out There" from "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," please welcome 17 year old Noah Van Ess.
(gentle music) ♪ Safe behind these windows and these parapets of stone ♪ ♪ Gazing at the people down below me ♪ ♪ All my life, I've watched them as I hide up here alone ♪ ♪ Hungry for the histories they show me ♪ ♪ All my life, I've memorized their faces ♪ ♪ Knowing them as they will never know me ♪ ♪ All my life, I've wondered how it feels to pass a day ♪ ♪ Not above them ♪ But part of them ♪ And out there ♪ Living in the sun ♪ Give me one day out there ♪ All I ask is one ♪ To hold forever ♪ Out there ♪ Where they all live unaware ♪ What I'd give ♪ What I'd dare ♪ Just to live one day out there ♪ (lively music) ♪ Out there among the millers ♪ And the weavers and their wives ♪ ♪ Through the roofs and gables, I can see them ♪ ♪ Every day, they shout and scold and go about their lives ♪ ♪ Heedless of the gift it is to be them ♪ ♪ If I was in their skin ♪ I'd treasure every instant ♪ Out there - I was performing at the Muny and I've done various Muny shows, different youth theater shows around St. Louis, and I've loved performing since I was very young.
My favorite part of Teen Talent is, for sure, everyone around me.
Everyone is super kind, and you become very close with the people who are in this talent show very fast, which is a lot of fun.
♪ I swear I'll be content ♪ With my share ♪ Won't resent ♪ Won't despair ♪ Old and bent ♪ I won't care ♪ I'll have spent one day ♪ Out there (audience cheering) - Thank you, Noah.
All right.
Our next finalist is a pianist who has been training since the age of five.
She's playing "Toccata on a Theme" from "The Old Maid and the Thief" by Gian Carlo Menotti.
Please welcome to the stage 16 year old Cindy Yan.
(audience cheering) (lively piano music) - Classical music.
One of the things that I really love about it is just how much you have to think while you're performing.
So, like, for example, I really enjoy playing music by J.S.
Bach and, like, in his, for example, the preludes and fugues, there are many voices going around.
Overall, it just melds together really wonderfully into something that's beautiful, even though it's, like, hard to keep track of.
(lively piano music continues) (lively piano music continues) (audience cheering) (lively piano music continues) Teen Talent, this is my very first time doing Teen Talent, and it's also my very first, like, competition outside of just, like, piano competition.
So this is a really special opportunity for me to not only bring classical music to a wider audience, but also to, like, engage with, like, a greater part of the performing arts world, I guess.
And it's just great.
It's awesome.
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Now, our next contestant is a dancer.
She'll be performing a classical Indian piece that she choreographed to modern Indian music.
Please welcome 17 year old Saisha Bhutani performing her piece entitled "The Rhythm of Radiance."
(gentle music) (gentle music continues) (gentle music continues) (audience cheering) (lively music) - So a big thing for me was that I wanted to have a piece that could really kind of show the beauty of the dance form.
And a big part of that dance form is the rhythm, the beats, the sharp movements.
So I really wanted to be able to convey that through the music I was choosing and through the choreography that I was doing.
(lively music continues) (lively music continues) (lively music continues) (lively music continues) (lively music continues) (lively music continues) (lively music continues) (lively music continues) (audience cheering) - I told you.
I told you, we have a lot of talent in store for you tonight.
We're gonna keep things moving right along to our next finalist.
She is a baton twirler who's bringing a little bit of rock and roll to the Fox stage.
Please welcome, performing her Bon Jovi medley, this is 17 year old Kyleigh McCourt.
(audience cheering) ♪ Blame it on the love of rock & roll ♪ (lively music) ♪ She says we've got to hold on to what we've got ♪ ♪ It doesn't make a difference if we make it or not ♪ ♪ We've got each other and that's a lot for love ♪ ♪ We'll give it a shot - So there was a Wednesday paper in my Wednesday packet at my elementary school, which is basically an ad book for everything happening in my school.
And so I was eight years old at the time, and I was really not interested in trying out for anything else 'cause I was already a gymnast.
But as soon as I went to my first pre-competition class, I knew that this is right where I wanted to be.
(lively music) (lively rock music) (lively rock music continues) (lively rock music continues) ♪ Shot through the heart and you're to blame ♪ ♪ Darling, you give love a bad name ♪ (lively rock music) ♪ This ain't a song for the broken-hearted ♪ ♪ It's my life ♪ It's now or never ♪ I ain't gonna live forever ♪ I just want to live while I'm alive ♪ ♪ It's my life ♪ My heart is like an open highway ♪ ♪ Like Frankie said, "I did it my way" ♪ ♪ I just want to live while I'm alive ♪ ♪ It's my life (audience cheering) - Thank you, Kyleigh!
All right, moving on to our next finalist, she'll be singing a song from the Broadway musical "The Pirate Queen."
Here she is singing "Woman," 17 year old Ariana Kroeger.
(gentle music) ♪ Woman, I am bored ♪ What does a woman mean ♪ Must my dreams face scorn ♪ Held back and unseen ♪ If I long for fire ♪ Must it stay unreal ♪ Can I not desire ♪ Am I not to feel ♪ If I ache to taste ♪ Am I not to try ♪ If my heart says sail ♪ Why should I deny ♪ I have my dreams ♪ I have made plans ♪ I see horizons wide as a man's ♪ ♪ Must I be nothing till I'm some man's wife ♪ ♪ Look at this face ♪ Does it deceive ♪ Do I look made to milk and to weave ♪ ♪ I will be damned to Hell if that is my life ♪ - So I learned this piece about six months ago 'cause I learned it for college auditions, and the story just really resonated with me.
And so in college auditions, you only get to do a little piece of the song, and I really wanted to expand upon that and be able to perform the whole story.
♪ I'm your match in size ♪ I'm your match in swords ♪ An equal in most eyes ♪ But when you have a dream ♪ And you're caught in its grip ♪ ♪ You can climb aboard a ship ♪ You can I think that Teen Talent is definitely going to be a stepping stone to the rest of my hopeful career.
I'm planning to go to NYU for college, majoring in drama.
And the goal one day is to be on Broadway.
And I think Teen Talent is definitely a very good preparation for things like that.
♪ Why not I ♪ I'm meant to fly ♪ Sail unrestrained ♪ Why is man free but woman chained ♪ ♪ Is that my epitaph before I die ♪ ♪ I should be free ♪ Free to be Grace ♪ I want to feel the wind on my face ♪ ♪ And if life beckons, I should go ♪ ♪ Face out the storm, not stay below ♪ ♪ Am I to be just woman ♪ No, not I (audience cheering) - Thank you, Ariana.
And to close out our evening, we have the last finalist.
Please welcome the Drum Warriors Ensemble.
- We are the Drum Warriors Ensemble and we will be playing a West African rhythm soli and kassa solo.
- Please welcome to the stage 17 year old Solomon Ahmed, 16 year old Ismail Botchway, 15 year old Addison Jones, and 17 year old Corrin Ward, the Drama Warriors Ensemble.
(lively drum music) (lively drum music continues) (lively drum music continues) (lively drum music continues) (lively drum music continues) (lively drum music continues) - So we all came together at a summer camp called Better Family Life.
We're all in drum class together, and we just clicked.
The ceremonial purpose of these rhythms, it's a rite of passage for the boys to become men and (indistinct).
So our leaders are Baba Edward Brown and Baba Dhati Kennedy, who sadly passed away in the middle of us rehearsing for this show.
This performance here is a tribute to him.
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What an incredible night.
What an incredible night.
Here we are, friends.
Third, second, and first place.
Here we go.
The third place $4,000 scholarship has been underwritten by Sally Johnston.
And third place for the St. Louis Teen Talent Competition goes to Avery Payne!
(lively music) (audience cheering) Whew!
All right.
Here we go to second place.
The second place $6,000 scholarship has been underwritten by John Russell.
Here we go.
Second place goes to Noah Van Ess!
(lively music) (audience cheering) All right, here we are, my friends, the moment we've all been waiting for.
The first place $8,000 scholarship has been underwritten and will be presented by the one and only Mary Strauss.
Here we go.
The winner of the 13th Annual St. Louis Teen Talent Competition is Ray Strickland!
(lively music) (lively music continues) Congratulations, Ray!
Thank you all.
You've been an amazing audience.
Thank you for joining us.
Thank you for joining us.
Make sure you are here next spring at the fabulous Fox stage for the 14th Annual St. Louis Teen Talent Competition.
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